A review by cupiscent
Welcome To Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward

4.0

A brutal slice of through-the-cracks childhood in a dystopic Australian future. I had emotional difficulty with this orphange-as-industry setting - it's too real, too harsh, and though it's centred on the older kids, it shows in passing the infants, and every single time it screwed my stomach into knots. (Probably doesn't help that my bub is sick right now.) For the first twenty pages or so, it was touch-and-go, but by then the strong, sardonic, starkly descriptive - and incredibly Australian - first-person narrator voice had me hooked.

So basically, this is horrible, with a dash of hope, and it's so well delivered.